Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan

by Hill Gates

Book Overview

Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with almost 5,000 women, this book examines footbinding as Sichuan women remember it from the final years of the empire and the troubled times before the 1949 revolution. It focuses on two key questions: what motivated parents to maintain this custom, and how significant was girls' work in China's final pre-industrial century? In answering these questions, Hill Gates shows how footbinding was a form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138104213
• ISBN13: 9781138104211
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"